The company’s founder and CEO, Jeff Shirley, spent 16 weeks in a residency program at the Ministry of Corrections and Policing developing BeeSecure.

“We are pleased with the platform the Innovation Challenge provided to develop a leading edge solution to help reduce rural crime for all Canadians,” Shirley said in a statement.

“Through the partnership with the Ministry of Corrections and Policing, and with feedback from our law enforcement and rural municipality partners, we have helped create a solution that will contribute positively to tackling this issue in Saskatchewan.”

The minister responsible for Innovation Saskatchewan, Tina Beaudry-Mellor, said they are pleased with the result of the initial challenge.

“We knew that someone in Saskatchewan would have the skills, talent and innovative vision to design a solution that would offer rural residents and farmers more security for their property, and we are pleased with the outcome of BeeSecure, through the Innovation Challenge,” Beaudry-Mellor said.

The technology is now being tested in the rural municipality of Mayfield.